Dettol launches Mzansi Protect campaign to encourage handwashing and reduce preventable illness and diseases

By Oluthando Keteyi

This week, Dettol launched its Mzansi Protect initiative aimed at reducing the burden of diarrhoea in South Africa by 50% by 2027.

Good hand hygiene may be a simple practice, but it is a highly effective action to prevent illness and diseases.

The push to wash hands has been a message that has been imprinted on everyone’s consciousness since the Covid-19 pandemic arrived.

With the Stats SA General Household Survey 2020 showing that 42% of South Africans don’t wash their hands with soap and water, the need to drive handwashing education has become even more imperative.

According to research, washing hands with soap can reduce the rate of diarrhoea by almost 40% and acute…

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